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Reader Comments (13)

Can you believe I saw It's a Wonderful Life for the first time ever last night? I'm almost 30. I have to tell you, it is really excellent, and darker than a lot of people make it out to be. Merry Christmas, everyone! (National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is still my all-time fave -- "We'll have the hap-hap-happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby danced with Danny fuckin' Kaye!"

@Sean - Really. I have a distant cousin who wrote the screenplay so we all went to support him. It actually wasn't horrible even though I was the youngest person in the movie theater by about thirty years. There is a scene where Billy Crystal and Bette Midler sing a duet and it almost makes up for how awful Marisa Tomei is the rest of the movie. Almost. Thanks for the sympathy.